Author: larry
Date: Thu Mar 8 10:45:10 2007
New Revision: 14321
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log:
Clarification suggested by obra++.
v-style now allows * and + wildcards for convenience.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
==============================================================================
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Thu Mar 8 10:45:10 2007
@@ -2534,11 +2534,13 @@
=item *
A version literal is written with a 'v' followed by the version
-number in dotted form. This always constructs a C<Version> object, not
-a string. Only integers are allowed; for anything fancier you must
-coerce a string to a C<Version>:
+number in dotted form. This always constructs a C<Version> object,
+not a string. Only integers and certain wildcards are allowed;
+for anything fancier you must coerce a string to a C<Version>:
v1.2.3 # okay
+ v1.2.* # okay, wildcard version
+ v1.2.3+ # okay, wildcard version
v1.2.3beta # illegal
Version('1.2.3beta') # okay
@@ -2590,8 +2592,8 @@
1.2.1
Note how the last pair assume that an implicit .0 sorts after anything
-alphabetic, and that alphabetic is defined according to Unicode,
-not ASCII. The intent of all this is to make sure that prereleases
+alphabetic, and that alphabetic is defined according to Unicode, not just
+according to ASCII. The intent of all this is to make sure that prereleases
sort before releases. Note also that this is still a subset of the
versioning schemes seen in the real world. Modules with such strange
versions can still be used by Perl since by default Perl imports
